Many of today's greatest business challenges are unprecedented. Never seen before. And quite frankly, some of them are downright weird. So what do you do when there is no magic toolbox to reach into, no support line to call, no book to teach you and your previous education or training is obsolete? You use Design Thinking.

This is a follow-up to my earlier post on DevOps where I mentioned Troposphere and Terraform as frameworks that help to make DevOps easier. Terraform was a bit easier to digest, as it is a configuration based tool which uses a JSON-like structure. You can use terraform to build the infrastructure for a simple component or your entire application infrastructure.

What is DevOps? What does that even mean? DevOps stands for “development” and “operations”. It is essentially a Lean and Agile way of doing business for Development, IT Operations, and Quality Assurance departments. In the past, most IT organizations built large teams in an isolated fashion to separate duties and allow resources to develop deeper and deeper skills within one area of expertise. Read More